August 29, 2007
Ni Vergüenza
As you all know, by now my wife gave birth to two beautiful babies yesterday morning. When it was time for my wife to be wheeled into the operating room for the c-section, I was dressed in the "Bunny Suit" they make you wear. It's like a one piece white jumpsuit and you have to wear the hat, mask and booties too. After the procedure they told me to wait where I got dressed until the doctor would come talk to me. At that moment another pregnant woman was wheeled down the hallway to another operating room and her husband sat next to me. We'll call him Carlos. We started making small talk. He told me was from Havana and judging by his inability to communicate in English I'm guessing he hasn't been here that long. I asked him if this was his first child that was being born and he said he had two children from a previous marriage in Cuba.
The nurse gave him the same explanation they gave me of how to dress up. He was having difficulty putting on the bunny suit and I helped him get his second hand in the sleeve. He muttered under his breath that in Cuba they don't have any of these fancy things.
"But I thought they had great health care in Cuba?" I asked in Spanish.
"En Cuba no hay ni vergüenza." He told me "In Cuba there isn't even shame." Meaning that everything is in such short supply that they don't even have things like shame.
Carlos then told me about his 15 year old daughter who was born in Cuba. It was a difficult labor for the mother and according to him, "In order to avoid doing a c-section they used forceps to deliver her. They fractured her clavicle and her skull."
I'm pretty sure Michael Moore won't be interviewing Carlos about the wonders of socialized medicine in Cuba any time soon. That's because shame is in short supply in our country too, particularly on the left.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at August 29, 2007 10:10 PM
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Henry,
Great article!!! God bless you and your new family and Gob bless America!!!!
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at August 30, 2007 07:11 AM
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